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Monday, April 22, 2013

Indian Summer Mini Quilt & Giveaway

OK, OK ... so I keep saying that I'll be posting more and then I disappear again. Sorry for that. Still trying to figure out how to fit blogging back in to my schedule. The good news is that a lot of the time I used to spend sewing and blogging has been spent instead focusing on my health! I completed a 10-mile run this past weekend, which was fantastic.

I was also able to work on my last project for the Art Gallery Fabrics Fat Quarter Gang. I was lucky enough to get to work with the new Indian Summer line by Sarah Watson for Art Gallery Fabrics, and I fell in love with it. I decided to make a mini quilt to show off some of the adorable prints and also to share my no-handwork, no-hassle hexagon technique. You can find the project on the Art Gallery Fabrics blog today.

And to celebrate the release of the project, Art Gallery Fabrics will send one lucky reader their very own bundle of Indian Summer fabrics! Simply leave a comment on this post letting me know if you've ever sewn a project with hexagons, and what your experience was like.As with all AGF Fat Quarter Gang giveaways, you must follow Art Gallery Fabrics on your favorite social media platform (Pinterest, Facebook, or Twitter).Subscribeto the AGF blog to stay up to date on all things AGF & the Fat Quarter Gang!

Hexagons seems to always appear in my EPP projects. I love them. Right now I'm making hexagons out of star in some lovely Liberty fabric. I want to mix the stars with some of the hexalong blocks. It's a slow moving project but it will turn out great.

The Indian summer line is fantastic - thank you for the opportunity to win...

I did some hexis last year on a Block of the Month. Would like to come up with a little hexagon hand piecing kit for a friend who is recovering from a broken leg and has limited mobility. Thanks for giveaway opportunity.

I have been a little hexie-obsessed lately. I made a queen-sized EPP hexagon quilt and now I am making a 3/4-inch hexagon of every fabric that passes through my hands. I am planning to make a super scrappy lap-quilt with those, but it is a long-term project! Thanks for the chance to win - I follow AGF in every way possible.

I love to make EPP hexagons, but once I put them together, the project usually falls apart, so I have boxes of basted hexagons I usually give away to people! Someday I'll make one! Thanks for the giveaway! :)

I have started two projects,a pillow and I am not sure what the second one will be yet but have finisher neither one. I love hexies and seeing what people have made with them, I just can't seem to get a finished product.I love your mini quilt, the different sized hexies just add so much to it. That is a great collection of fabric, would love to win some.Congrats on the 10 mile run, that is great, you should be proud!

I am sewing my very first hexagon project right now - giant hexagons made form a layer cake. So far I have them cut and marked, sewing starts today! If the process isn't terrible I plan on making a hexagon quilt as a wedding gift.

I had pieced & quilted a large Grandmother's Flower Garden just a couple of years ago & it happily resides on my bed. I loved the piecing but it was like a puzzle to put the blocks together. Would love to do another more updated hexagon project & these beautiful fabrics would do nicely. I am already a follower of Art Gallery Fabrics on facebook. Thank you for the chance to win!

I did mini hexi flowers to appliqué on a quilt, they were sooooo cute. Now I'm doing some big hexis, but using glue pen to hold in place while I hand sew then together. For some reason I hate basting and then ripping the basting out later .....Love the fabric! Thnks

Last summer I sewed my first-ever quilt, in this pattern - http://imagingermonkey.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/tie-me-up-tutorial.html. It was too big (or my apartment was too small) to spread out flat anywhere, so it came out a little crooked! By the way, I was just talking about male sewers (sewists?) with a friend and he suggested the title "seamsters"!

Oh that's a good use of them! I'm currently in the middle of paper piecing a 1" hexagon lap quilt - I think I'll be done in a year or so at the rate I'm going, but it's a great traveling/doctors office project!I love Indian Summer too, this morning I started putting together a pencil pouch with some patchwork bits from the line, thank you so much for the giveaway!

Congratulations on the 10-mile run! That's awesome! I just started my very first hexagon quilt last night, using 1-inch hexagons. This will be MY quilt, so no deadline, just working on it as I sit and watch TV and surf blogs. I love it so far, and can definitely see how it can be addicting. I blogged about it, so now I'll be held accountable because people will be asking me "whatever happened to that hexagon quilt?" So I HAVE to finish it! Love the Indian Summer fabric! Thanks for the chance to win :)

Not yet! I'm new to quilting and I have to admit, the idea of hexagons and the like, and paper piecing scare me silly! They are both however on my to do list this year! Even if it's only a placemat I WILL do a hexagon pattern! I've already planned it out, I've just gotta actually DO it! :)

I haven't yet, but I am planning one for this summer. I bought some of the hexie precuts from Moda in white and I plant to cut some others from my stash. Congrats on you run. My hubby was in that race too. Don't you love the tarheel medal?

I've handsewn a few hexagon flowers during kids practices but have not done anything more with them. I would love to win some Indian Summer. Although I miss reading your blogs, its good to hear that you are taking care of yourself.

I've never tried hexagons but I'm seeing so many delightful hexie quilts on the internet (including yours) that I'm inspired to try one! Thanks for the fabric giveaway and for your inspiring blog. I follow Art gallery on twitter and via email.

Congratulations on 10K - that is amazing! It is good to have you back on the blog though! I love your mini quilt and a different way of doing hexies :-) I follow AGF on FB (Deborah Gunthorpe) and follow their blog by email.

I've never finished a hexagon project, but I started English paper-piecing a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt last year, and pull it out to work on every so often. I'm thinking, at this rate, I'll have it finished by the time I retire. LOL.

No hexies for me. At least not in the forseeable future. It isn't my favorite graphic, and they seem like a pain on top of that. They are - however - cuter when someone else does them than when I think about doing them myself, lol. Liking the Indian Summer line, thanks for the chance to win! itsdrucilla(at)yahoo(dot)com

I'm very slowly making EPP hexies in modern florals. I'm quite satisfied with the slow pace, as I'm gathering fabric I really, really like with very specific design elements. Recently I saw a hexie quilt in a frame (in Primitive Quilts, of all places) and it made me think that I can scale down my plan and eventually finish this project. So, it's been good in every way that matters to me.

Indian Summer is my favorite line ever! I already made two big quilt tops with it and still have scraps to play with. Usually I give leftovers away because scraps have a way of asking ver, but I'm not parting with these! I follow in Google Reader.

Many moons ago I made a hexagon EPP cushion, never done anything since. Against your no-handwork rule I'm thinking of starting a tumbling block EPP project so I have something to do those times I can't be with my machine! Love this idea for a quilt though, thanks for the giveaway.

Love the mini quilt! I've not sewn with hexes before but would like to, I reckon a a small project like this would be the perfect intro. Thanks for the tutorial & for the chance to win these gorgeous fabrics - I follow AGF on Twitter & subscribe to their blog.

Congratulations on running the 10K! My brother took up running a few years ago and now LOVES it. I called him on Sunday and his wife said he was busy lying in a tub filled with ice after running a 10K. LOL I have also taken a step back from blogging so I can focus on being present in my own life.

I've never done hexagons on the machine, but have two hexagon quilt WIPs that I'm doing via EPP.

Good for you to take care of your health (not so good for us at times). I am a follower to AGF. I'm trying to get into hexies but have too many other things I'm working on. Thanks, though, for showing an easy way to use them.

Really sweet quilt ~ love the how the hexagons are done appliqued not pieced. I have done a hexagon quilt ~ it has 940 or so 1 1/2" hexagons all sewn together by hand and it's all scrappy too. Love doing hand work.I also follow AFG.Congratulations on the 10 mile run!

Congratulations on your new health program! I was late in life getting on my own program but I learned that it's never too late. At 52 I feel 30. At 30 I felt 50. Life is good but probably not good enough to make a hexagon quilt. :-)

Lovely to see you back in blog land. I saw your quilt pop up on the Art Gallery blog in my blog feed earlier and loved it before ever I read about it. My only experience with hexies so far has been to applique them as centrepieces on dresden plates. I do want to try a nice EPP project with hexies - I'm thinking that should be something nicely portable and fun to try during the summer holidays.

I have made lots of hexagon projects..small paper pieced doll quilts, paper pieced coin purses, larger machine pieced quilts and quilts that were sections of a hexagon pieced together. I am a follower of Art Gallery Fabrics on Facebook and receive their newsletter.

I finished someone's stack n' whack UFO - it used pieced hexagons. Now, I have part of a Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt started -- I will work more on it but doubt can finish before I pass. That is the aggravating part - knowing I cannot finish it despite enjoying making all those double hexie flowers.

I love this mini quilt...and this fabric line is awesome! I love your herringbone quilting...definitely going to give that a try (maybe on a potholder to start)! Thanks for the tutorial. I follow all things Art Gallery Fabrics. :) amhalverson(at)gmail(dot)com

I just started making hexies last summer. I loved it! I made a bunch of them and then had to start sewing them together. That part sucked. So I made a little table toper for a friend and the rest are sitting in a little glass jar. :P

Have I!!!! Love sewing hexagaons. You don't have to look far on my blog to find some. I do it old style, English paper piecing, by hand etc. I like doing it that way because I always have something for on-the-go! :) Love your mini! amateurquilter at gmail

hexagons....my latest project is admiring them on other people's blogs. I'd like to say I'd like to try them - but at this point, they are not on my horizon! does that discount me from entering the giveaway?

My first hexies were 10mm hexies. Yes I know I am mad but I only had to make a small collection of them in red and white fabrics to form the cloth of a patchwork skirt for a redwork hand stitched Angel wall hanging for my mum for Christmas... Outcome being that they look beautiful but were very tricky to work with.

and for the embarrasment.... I did a lap quilt/crib quilt/baby blanket thing about 8-9 years ago for the first niece in our family... by hand... never. again. LOL it was a darling little classic winnie the pooh pattern. I hope she keeps it cause MAN it took forever! Now i am learning to quilt and enjoy using my machine... (oh the madness! lol)

Health is important don't apologize. Love your blog and I only make it here now and then but I am always interested in the post. I think it is amazing that people are so skilled to make quilts like this.

I was looking at mini projects and came across yours today. I'd like to make a Halloween inspired hexie mini quilt. Your quilt has given me inspiration to do 2 things I haven't tried yet. Mini and hexies on the same project. :)

My very first quilt was made of English pieced hexies...at the age of 14. With Laura Ashley fabrics no less. All we could get in Oxford. Makes me shudder to think of it. Glad to see you back. I've missed your blog. And your wry sense of humor.